The Letter by Jean Carolus (1866)

Painting of two women in an elegant salon, one reading a letter, with a gentleman in a doorway behind folding screens.

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An interior scene shows two elegantly dressed women in a richly furnished salon, one in a pink silk gown reading a letter while another in a teal coat and yellow skirt sits near a small table. A gentleman in dark attire stands in a doorway behind folding screens, beneath a green damask wall with an oval floral painting.

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1866

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Painting

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Wikimedia Commons

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Public domain

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